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This week a group of researchers, bioethicists, publishers and theologians are discussing the merits of human heritable ...

What once started as your standard 10-year Ph.D. project turned into a miracle creation. In a classic mix up, geneticist Varun Johnson from the Human Genome Project research team accidentally ...

Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme ...

His work could lead to a broader understanding of how—and why—the human genome takes on such vastly different shapes. In 2009, Zhang and his mentor, renowned chemist Peter Wolynes, used a ...

David Liu and Richard Merkin of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with Columbia professor Sam Sternberg, have ...

As part of their commitment to fostering in-depth and international discussion about human genome editing, the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong, the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, and the U.S.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno County community is celebrating breaking ground on a long-awaited project to connect residents to Sanger's water system. It would give residents in the rural area ...

Nearly all these inserted elements have been silenced by our cells' defense mechanisms over time, but a few, nicknamed "jumping genes," can still move around the human genome like viruses.